As I was sitting on my flight to Beijing, I'll confess to having felt a little unsure and nervous about what I was getting myself into. I was, after all, putting the next six months of my life in the hands of people I had spoken to only over the internet. But as I was later camping on the Great Wall, or when I was sitting down with people from all over the world to eat Peking Duck, or when I was having actual conversations with people in Chinese, it was hard to see what I had ever been worried about. I couldn't more strongly recommend a program with CSA.